Chapter 36: Pleasantly Surprised

Jared Reznik clapped his hands with the sincerest enthusiasm he could muster. He clapped his hands as his smile beamed out across the students sitting before him in his last class of his one week stint as a substitute teacher at Blanke Schande College. That last class was the same bunch of students he had addressed in his first session on Monday morning. That was only five days ago now but already it seemed like a life time.

Over the five days of his posting at BSC he had gotten to know these students and others really well and he knew he was going to miss them all. The fact that half of those students were female and the fact that those females were always totally naked while on campus was a fact that Jared Reznik had become so normalized too that he no longer even saw it. They were just one big bunch of young men and young women that had all performed extremely well at the task he had set them all in that first session way back on Monday morning.

Right now Jared Reznik was displaying his open appreciation for the dozen or so group presentations he had just witnessed. He was also very appreciative of the very professional way all those groups had written up their calculations and findings as related to parabolic curves and the mathematics of quadratics that went with that. Those write ups all sat in a neat pile on the desk at the front ready for Jared to take away and mark properly over the weekend. Even though he was not coming back on the following Monday he would still be able to drop by to hand back their assignments and his grading. Part of that total grading also involved his mark given to the presentations he had just witnessed. Jared already knew that he was going to be awarding some very high grades because all of the presentations he had seen had been just so superb.